Early Monastic Buddhism v2.c37.19

v2.c37.19

Leaving aside for the present the Haimavatas, or the Mahāyānist Sthaviras let us turn to the original Sthavira school which claimed the Pāli scriptures as its own, or to be more precise, to the Sthaviravādins of the Mahāvihāra of Ceylon. Vasumitra has passed over the doctrines of this school while the Kathāvatthu refers to them by the word sakavāda. For the purpose of finding out the distinctive doctrines of this school, we shall elicit from the Kathāvatthu the views of the Sakavādins as against those of other schools on any particular doctrine.